1919.560.32: Brutus and the Ghost of Julius Caesar; verso: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, after Rembrandt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.560.32

People

Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

Brutus and the Ghost of Julius Caesar; verso: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, after Rembrandt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/179944

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

19.8 x 16.1 cm (7 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: top of crown [Full watermark: Britannia figure encircled with the words EJUSQUE / LIBERTATE / PRO PATRIA, the whole crowned; with countermark GR, crowned (similar to Churchill 225, also 219-236; similar to Heawood 214, also 201-221)]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.560.32

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Reynolds's Sketch-Books", Athenaeum (May 24, 1856), no. 1491, pp. 655-656, p. 656
• Giovanna Perini Folesani, "Sir Joshua Reynolds Studia van Dyck a Blenheim Palace", Uno sguardo verso nord: Scritti in onore di Caterina Virdis Limentani, Il Poligrafo casa editrice (Padua, 2016), pp. 335-345, pp. 338, 341, verso repr. p. 337 as fig. 3

Related Works

• 1919.560.1-33

  Sir Joshua Reynolds

  Sketchbook

  Drawings

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